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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, FEBRUAEY 10, 1881.
YOJL. I.-NO: 13.
Important Intelligence from All Parts.
— ^
3£r. Morgan's Electoral-Count resolutions,
reported the sday-toefore as a substitute for
Mr. IhgaUs'.'propo^itibrij were taken up. in the
Senate on the 2d aud, at Mr. Morgan's suggestion, were amended in minor details so-as to
make them concurrent, and to provide for two
tellers instead of one on the part of the Senate; an amendment, offered by Mr. Edmunds,
that the count take place In the Senate Chamber, and not in the hall of the House was rejected—23 to 35—and this was followed by the
rejectidfi'#3TtO'B£-of art amendment, otfered
byMivj^atpiivproviclipffthat the tellers of the
two houses'shall make a list of the Electoral
rotes "as the certificates shall be opened by
the President of the Senate," instead of " as
they shall be declared;" the resolutions were
then adopted by a viva voce vote. The President's messasre concerning' the Ponca Indian
question was read... In the -House ainessage
was received from the President emboflying
the report of the Ponca Commission, and urging the passage*©!' a- bill -in accordance with
their recommendations. In concluding-, the
President, expressed .profound regret for the
injustice done to the tribe, aud, without attempting to apportion the blame, says that, as
Chief-Executive at the- time- the wrong
was consummated,, he feels his own
responsibil ty deeply enough to make
him sincerely wish that they should have
redress. The Speaker also presented a message from the President, transmitting for consideration and appropriate action of Congress
a letter from the Secretary • of the STavy. recommending an. approlpriatioh of S'20'i),OOQ for
the establishment ttf naval stations on the
American Isthmus. The District of Columbia
Appropriation bill was passed: The Apportionment bill was called up, and Mr, Cox made
a speech explaining its provisions and urging
its passage. ^
In the Senate on the 3d on motion of Mr.
Morganitie concurrent resolution introduced
byhim June io, 13S0, declaring- thepresident of
the Sepate, not invested by the Constitution
with The^rlghifto'eonrit- the votes of Electors
for President and Vice-President of the P/nlted
States, so as to determine what votes shall be
received and counted, or what votes shall be
rejected, was taken up, aud, after some discussion, a motion by Mr. Edmunds to lay the
resolution on.the table-was rejected by.a party
vote^-33to 33.; At the expiration of the morning hour Mr. Morgau moved to postpone the
regiilar order, which was agreed to—3-3 to 24—
and a motion was then agreed to—30 to 18—to
resume consideration of the Morgan
resolution. After debate Mr. Edmunds
moved an amendment to make the
resolution read that. '"In the opinion of the
Senate, neither the. Senate, nor the Senate and
House of Representatives, nor the President
of the Senate;* is invested by the-Constitution
with the right to make the count," which
amendment was voted down—18 to 29, a party
vote. An amendment offered by Mr. Tniralls,
to the effect that the President of the Senate
had the right to count the votes in the sense
of computing them, but had not the right to
count in the sense of determining judicially
whajwere votesv was rejected without division. Z.M vote was"-■subsequently taken upon
■agreeing to the resolution, when the result
phowed SO ayes to 1 in the negative (Mr.
■Wbyte), the Republicans (except Mr.
Coiikling, who voted for the resolution,) abstaining from voting, thus indicating the ab-
senca of a quorum. The minority evincing
a disposition to continue the. obstructive policy, a motion by Mr. Morgan to adjourn was
agreed to In the House the Indian Appropriation bill was reported with the Senate
amendments, some of which were agreed to.
The Apportionment bill was taken up, and Mr.
Cox offered an amendment fixing the number
of Representatives at- SOT, while Mr. Sherwin,
of the GeSsus'Comniittee, favored 301. -The
debate-faen assumed a political cast, and the
bUl»Vi<;eB.t over, without action. Mr. King introduced a bill appropriating §20,000 for the
distribution of seed corn.
Ltfttfe"Seh-&t&on the 4th Conference Com-
mlttees-were appointed on the Indian and Naval Appropriation bills. The bill to provide
for sending a vessel to the relief of the Arctic
steamer Jeannette was passed, with an amendment increasmg.the appropriation to $175,000,,
and pro vidLig for the relief of any other vessels that may be found needing assistance.
The House bill appropriating $2(5,000 for a National Museum was itlso passed. A motion by
Mr. Logan to postpone the regular order of
business aud take up the Grant-retirement
bill was, reje'Cted—26 to 30—a p art j-vote, ex-
ceptthat'.Mr. Hilt (Ga.) and Mr. Davis (JD1.I,
voted*-ea with theRepubiieans. A motion by
Mr. r/Qgai-ftwJake up his Franking-privilege
resolution was also voted down by a
partv vote—20 to 31. Mr. Morgan's resolution denving the right of the President
of the Senaie to count the Electoral vote was
taken up, and. after debate, was amended by
adding tbe word.-*: " And that it is the duty
•of Congress,, without delay, to institute measures 'fo~ execute/a due arid orderly performance of said duty iu future," and the resolution, as amended, was passed—i3 to 1—Messrs.
Allison, Blaine, Booth, Conkllng, Davis (III.),
Hoar and Jones (ISTev.)-voting with the Democrats in the affirmative In the House a bill
was reported from the Judiciary Committee,
aurh'orMng the States of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois to commence and prosecute suits
against the United States in the Supreme
Court of the United States. An act for the
sale of Indian lands in Kansas was passed, the
rate being fixed at three dollars per acre.
Several private bills were also passed.
A joikt resolution was passed in the Senate On the 5th Inviting the Governmeut!'and:
people of_ Prance and the family of Lafayette
to join^fie^^nSe^tateslfifheTorktown^en-
tentiiai celebration, and,§20,000 were apprxh
priateS for the occasion! The Pension Appropriation bill was taken up and debated—
The Senate Electoral-Count resolution was
taken up inthe Hoiise, and, after debate, the
resolution being divided, tho first branch-
providing: for the meeting of both houses on
the '.-th, the Vice-President presiding, and f or
one teller on the part of the Senate, and two
on the part of the House, to .make a
list of the votes as declared and
to deliver them to the President of the
Senate, who shall announce the. state of-the
vote and the persons elected President and
Vice-President of the United States—was
agieed to without division. The second
brancb-rprovidingthat, if the .counting of any
votes ■«fiEle,ctor3Tgiyen on, any Other, day than
that fixed by Congrs?s for the easting of such
voiesigfaall not essentially change the result of
the vote for President and Vice-President, the
Presidenfrpf t-hftSeiiatea^hall declare the rer
sult*a3J,tAvoiiIdbEs:%ere sach votes counted;
apd also asjifejyould beTvere'they not counted;
"btit in eitker'eveh't——is efectedPresident of
the United States;" and the result for Vice-
President shall be announced in the same manner—was also agreed to—16'J to ft—the Republicans as a rule voting in the negative, and
the Democrats in the affirmative: the following Democrats, however, voted in the negative: Messr3. AckSen, Converse, Culberson,
Hurd. Slemons and Young (Pa.), and the following Republicans In the affirmative: Messrs.
Belford, Bisbee, Bowman, Burrows, Calkins,
CannonV Carpenter,-' Ch ttendem erapo, Daggett, Dicfcj,* Fenton, Field, Fitiier, Hall, Haw-
ley.-Hayes, Hazleton, Heilman, Hiscock, Horr,
Kejiyv Killinger, Llnd^ey, McGowan. Morton,,
OtiS&Ill, Prescott, Rice, Robiuson, Stone and
Tayli5r.'0hio.) The Apportionment bill was
taken up and debated.
Domestfc.
The World's Pair Commission has issued a
circular announcing that the States and Territories will determine for themselves the
manner and character of the r expositions.
Tsimigkaxts to the number of 8,076 airived
at the port of New York-durin^ the month of
January of^tjhis. year, being 2,399 more than
during the corresponding month of last year.
JoiiAU^-i Callauas and her son William
were burned td death in their dwelling at
Dorchester, Mass., on the night of the 31st
ult.
AN alarming increase in the number of
small-pox cases in New Tork was reported on
the 2d.
The Central Square Baptist Church, In Cambridge, Mass., valued at §95,000, was totally
destroyed by fire on the 3d.
Colosei. Uaxler, with a squad of Texas
rangers, surprised a> band of twenty Apaches
near Qaltman'% few days ago and killed six
and captured three of their number.
^T^Bfanare. is announced of ^oomisAMc-
^tpler'i.Varriage; manufacturers, of Bath, N.
H., withliabiiifcies of $110,000.*
JodgkBarrett, of New York, hasdenied
tlie application of Kfifiis Hatch fqi> atifajunc-
tioo to prevent the eoasolidation of the tole-
grapu,|oia|»ftn|f8. fJia Western, imroii t&la*
gtzpli t)owi]nmf antmufteoti on tte 3d tljafe it;
privileges of the American Union and Atlantic
and Pacific Companies.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided
the Game law to be Constitutional.
A ely-wheei. eighteen feet in diameter
flew apart in the Russian mills, atNiles, Ohio,
on the 3d and two men were killed and several injured.
Ox the 3d at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y.", the
thermometer stood at thirty-two degrees
below zero.
George Baohmas-, the President of the
American Sash Balance and Lock Company,
of Sandusky, Ohio, ,has absconded.
Three men who brutally treated a young
lady of Aususta, Ark., were taken from the.
County Jail on the night of the 2d, carried
across the river and hung". «
Hexry Lame, a colored man 128 years old,
died at Mount Vernon, Ind., on the 3d.
Gheyexke stock-owners deny that any
great, number of cattle have perished on the
stock ranges by reason of the "severe winter,
and allege that the losses will not exceed ten
per cent.
Catharine Mikler and George Smith
were executed at Williafnsport, Pa., on the
3d in the presence of about one hundred and
fifty spectators.
Geor&e W.- Bishop and Isaac W. Helm,
well-known cit'zens of Baltimore, have been
sentenced to five years.in the Penitentiary for
forgng the signature of a minor,,.named
Frederick Ketchum, by which a fraud of -S18,-,
000 was perpetrated.
The amendments to the Funding bill as
agreed uron by the United States Senate Finance Committee on the 4th provide that the
bonds shall bear interest at 8}^ per cent, per
annum; that they shall be redeemable in
live years and payable in twenty; that
the certificates shall be redeemable in one
year and payable in ten, and shall bear
interest not to exceed %% per-cent, per annum, the interest to be paid semi-annually;
that the National Bank deposits, as security
for circulation, shall be all in Government
bonds; that there shall be an allowance of
one-half of one per cent, instead of one-
fourth of one per cent, for negotiating the
new bonds.
By the explosion of a mill boiler at Kimms-»
wick, Mo., on the 4th, John and Frank
Schmidt and Charles Baker were killed and
two other men seriously wounded.
Bobbers recently took four mail pouches
and the treasure bag from a stage at Del
Norte. Col.
Joseph Wade, the Indianapolis murderer,
has been granted a new trial, for error in the
charge to the jury.
The Secretary of the Treasury in Washington on the 4£h received a letter from Nashville, Tenn., inclosing sixty dollars, with a
request that it be placed to the credit of the
conscience fund.
Je^xie Eobertsox died at Nashville,
Tenn., on the 4th. She was known as "Soldier Charlej"." During the rebellion she
donned male attire, enlisted at Chicago and
served for several years in the Union army.
John Bbowx's Sons, manufacturers of
cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for
S750,(J0J.
The Capitol Hotel at Dover, Del., burned
to the ground on the morning rii the. 4th.
The guests at the hotel, including Attorney-.
General Graj-, the Speaker and several members of the Legislature, barely escaped with
their lives.
Harvard Coixegs:, Massachusetts, has received a donation of §100,000 from an unknown friend, for the erection of a building
for its law school.
Leo E. von Hillerx, a German Count,
has been held for trial; nnder bail of §1,003,
by a New York Court, for forging death certificates of the Metropolitan Life Insurance'
Company.
The Reformed Church at Utica, N. Y.,'
erected at a cost of §63,000, was recently totally destroyed b3* lire.
* The grocery house of the Greeley-Burnham
Company, the largest in St. Louis, caught
fire on the evening of the 5th from the breaking down of a shelf full of matches in cases.
The building and contents were speedily destroyed, and several adjoining establishments
were also burned, causing a total loss of
about §400,000. *
In a storm at Gervais, Ore., a few days ago
a school-house containing one hundred pupils
and teachers was carried eighty yards. Several children were badly hurt, but none were
killed.
A special dispatcli from Charlotte Court
House, Va., on the 4th states that, a woman
with considerable money stopped for lodging
at the house of John Demps, .n Checkertown.
the was put in a room with Demps' wife, but
in a different bed. Demps determined to
murder the woman, and entered the room at
midnight with an ax, and with two fearful
blows he killed his wife, supposing her to be
the visitor. The screams of the other woman
informed him of his mistake. She fled, and
lie, after burying his wife, was arrested
while burning the bed-clothing to conceal his
crime.
Martin Donley and wife, living on Big
Run, near Williamstown, Ohio, died oft the
4th within a few hours of each other, in
great agony* giving undisputed symptoms Of.-
trichinje. They had eaten of raw pork a few
days before. A portion of the meat was examined and found to contain large numbers
of the fatal worms.
A recent convention of California farmers
resolved to form a Wheat-Growers' Association, for protection against middlemen, and
to establish an agency at Liverpool.
John J. Berry/, an embezzling bank cashier of Hackensack, N. J., has been sent to the
State Prison for five years.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in portions
of Hfeiw York and New Hampshire on the 4th.
August Schultz, a fifteen-year-old boy of
Milwaukee, handed himself the other day
through fear of punishment for haying stolen
five dollars from his parents.
Pavid C. Bogart, Avho left a railroad-
switch open at Pennhorn, N, J., last fall,*
causing a collision and two deaths, has recently been tried at Jersey City and convicted of manslaughter.
been anticipates for several days. He was
unconscious from and after five o'clock on the
evening before his death;
General Thomas T. Eckhart, of New
York, was on the otli elected General Maua-
ger of the Western Union Telegrapli Company under the organization of the recent consolidation. Jay Gould and Russell Sage are
among the new Directors.
Foreig-n.
There was great excitement in the British
House of Commons on the 3d. Secretary
Harcourt refused to inform Mr. Parnell what
conditions of his ticket-of-le.tve Davitt had
violated to cause his arrest, the Irish members shouting "Shame!" and the others
cheering. The speaker refused to hear John
Dillon, who continued to talk, and a motion
for his suspension was adopted, and he was
forcibly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
When Gladstone rose to speak, O'Donohue
moved to adjourn. Pamell proposed that
Gladstone be no longer heard, whereupon
the former's suspension was moved and carried, the vote being 405 to 7. On'his refusing
to leave he was escorted out by six officers,
the Home-Rulers waving their hats.. F.nui-
gan was then suspended, and, as twenty-
seven Home-Rulers refused to vote, they
were suspended in a body and removed singly
by the Serg.eant-at-Arms. The House did
not adjourn until, on Mr. Gladstone's motion, the bill for the protection of life and
property in Ireland hadboen declared urgent.
Near'the town of Canete, in Chili, gold
has been, found in nugget-5, some of which
weighed four to six ounces. Thirteen hundred
claims have been taken up.
In the Prussian Diet on* the 4th Bismarck
announced that he must have larger resources, and considered tobacco as the most
suitable thing from which to obtain them. It
was intimated'that he intended to establish a
Government monopoly of the weed.
Rev. Dr. Schaff, Chairman of the American Committee of Revision of tlie Bible, has
recently received a. dispatch from Oxford,
Eng., stating that the publication of the revised New Testamenthasbeen postponed until
May next.
A London telegram of the 4th says the
Government had stationed two gunboats at
Tarbert, on the Shannon. The arrest of
leading Land Leaguers was expected to follow closely after the passage'of the Coercion
bill.
Davitt, the Land Leaguer, arrested in
Dublin on the 3d for violation of the conditions of his ticket-of-leave, Svas« taken on the
4th before the Chief-Magistrate at the Bow
Street Police Station in London, and sentenced to finish his term of servitude at Pen-
tonville prison.
France has renewed its proposal to Germany for an International Conference on the
silver question.
It is stated that Russia intends to place her
new loan on the America n market.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 5th says
the Porte was preparing to increase the land
tax and have it paid five years in advance. A
forced loan from the inhabitants of Constantinople, on the ground of their exemption
from military service, was also proposed.
The King of Ashantee has declared war
against England, and stores and ammunition
have been ordered to the Cape coast from
Madeira.
Meetings were held throughout Ireland
and in some parts of England and Scotland
on the 6fch to protest against the passage of
the Coercion bill. The meetings^of-Ahe Land
League were generally prohibited.
T.Berlin dispatch of the 6th says that
General Garibaldi's son Menotti had been offered the command of a volunteer corps for
"the Transvaal.'.
It was stated oft the 6th that the fund of
the Irish Land League had been deposited in
France, in the names of Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and Egau. Egan had gone to Paris to escape the operation of the Coercion act.
Three policemen of Edinburgh, Scotland,
were shot on the 5th by two men whom they
arrested for lurking about the" custom-house.
One of the latter subsequently committed
suicide.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
/
Personal and Political.
The New York Assembly on the, 2d, by a
vote of 101 to 9, passed a bill to prevent the
consolidation of the Telegraph Companies.
The Woman's National Anti-Polygamy
Society, in session at .Salt Lak? City,on the
M, adopted resolutions Indorsing the action
ol Governor Murray in withholdimj a certificate of election from Cannon, and calling on
Congress to indorse the Governor's action,
and not allow an alien and a law-breaking
rolygamist to continue as a member of that
body.
Francis A. DuRrvAGE, a well-known story
writer, died in New York on the 3d.
A recent New York dispatch says William
jl. Vanderbilt had paid the entire cost of
transporting the obelisk, pedestal and steps
Irpm Alexandria to New York and erecting
them in Central Pari?, I
: Tboms 0mww> tlw oratBonfcEflgHsIf his-
to'to, diod k London on tlio nwnlw at Mia
RiJh BgerJ Ofgfjff #| years, His u0»tl» jift|
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' LATER SEWS.
In a recent interview with a New York reporter Jay Gould stated that the consolidation of the Telegraph companies was completed and could not" be disturbed by any
legislative or judicial action. He said the
object of the consolidation was to. carry Out a
plan of developing in the .United States an
efficient system of- cheap telegraphy on a
grand scale, both by sea and by land. A
general cable and telegraphic circuit around
the world was contemplated, with New York
for the center.
On the 7th a large portion of New Orleans
was under water, owing to a^crevasse-m the
new and old canal levees.
Aunty Jackson, a negress^ aged 112 years,
died at Norma!, 111., a few days ago.
The New York State military authorities
have foroidden the use of armories by religious sects, as also parades by the National
Guard for their benefit.
Our authorities in Alaska are mak'ng
earnest efforts to suppress the, manufacture
of "hoockcrso," an intoxicat.ng beverage of
Russian antecedents. In one raid over 200
stills and 1,500 gallons of mash and liquor
were destroyed. The merchants of Sitka
have adopted a resolution not to import any
molasses or Sandwich Island sugar, from
which the drink is distilled.
A Berlin telegram of the 7th says the Emperor William had sent to the Sultan an autograph letter declaring that Germany would
do her utmost to prevent war.
A Dublin dispatch of the 7th states that
the Home-Rulers had decided to carry into
the great towns of Eugiand and Scotland the
agitation against coercion.
It was announced from Dublin on the 7th
that tenants on several estates who had b»en
refusing to pay rent had begun handing
in the money.
In the British House of Commons on the
7th the Home Secretary announced that
Davitt would not be subjact to ordinary
prison labor,.but would have to wear a con-
v.ct's dress.
Resolutions have recently been adopted
by the New York Board of Trale and Transportation calling for the improvement of the
canals and the abolition of all tolls on Westbound freight, to enable boatmen to compete
successfully with the improved Canadian
canal. . *' '
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Wisconsin for the apprehension of
female tramps. . „
In the United States Senate on the 7th, on
motion of Mr. Morgan, Messrs. Hamlin and
Thurman were appointed tellers for the Senate in the Electoral-count proceedings. The
Pension/ Appropriation bill was further
amended. In the House the Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. House
and Crowley as tellers on the part of tho
House to make a list of the votes declared
for President and Vice-President on tho 9th.
A motion to susreud the rules and pass, tho
Rtvoi' and Harbor Appi'bpi'iation bill was de«
fflatod-»-i(iO to go, not tlit) Jiecossary two*
tuirds in tlie mmkttn* '
A. lJ«sperate Struggle with Two Bears.
LoTTns Merrill, the female hunter ci
Wayne County, Pa., has just had another adventure worthy of record, and one which came
so near costing: her her lifefthat she will probably in the future never resume her masculine
sport. A few days ago, just after the great
sleet storm which swept over the country,
Lottie determined to go deer hunting-. Don*
ning her snow shoes she started to cross Drig
Swamp, a dense mass of scrub-oak and laurel.
When she had reached the center of the marsh
she discovered the foot-prints of a very large
bear on the crust. She followed the trail out
of the swamp for about two miles, when she
discovered the den which the animal inhabited. Entering the cave she found two little
cubs on a bed of leaves in one corner. The
cubs were about the size of kittens and were
easily captured.
Lottie was just emerging from the cave
when she was met by an immense she bear.
The bear had heard the cub3 yell and was
making all possible speed to rescue them. Before Lottie could draw her rifle to her shoulder
the animal was upon her aud, grasping he»in
her paws, gave her such a terrible squeeze that
she fainted, when the bear, thinking her dead,
released her grip. She fortunately regained
consciousness quickly, and when the old bear
was playing with her cubs the plucky hunter
drew her rilie and shot her in the side. The
bullet did not strike the animal's heart, and as
the brute dashed at her again Lottie drew her
hunting knife and with one bold stroke nearly
severed the bear's head from the body.
Lottie was just congratulating herself on
her successful escape when the dead bear's
mate made his appearance. Lottie's rilie was
unloaded and she was totally unprepared for
a second encounter, but determined to " fight
it out." The struggle was a long one. .Fortunately the young lady was not incumbered
in her motions by petticoats, for in all her
hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons of
doeskin with a long blouse. When, Anally,
Lottie thought the bear was dead she stooped
over to cut his throat, and the animal, with
one stroke of his monstrous paw, tore the
clothing almost completely from her body.
During- the protracted struggle the bear had
reached the edge of a cliff fully 100 feet
high and sloping at an angle of more
than 45 degrees down to the AValliupaupack
Creek. As the animal grabbed Lottie he commenced sliding on the slippery crust down
this almost perpendicular slope. Lottie was
carried with him, and every foot of distance
traversed added to their velocity. When they
reached the foot of tho slope they struck
against a tree, completely killing the bear and
breaking two of Lottie's ribs, her left arm and
one of her limbs. She managed, however, to
crawl about a mile to a house, where she received medical treatment. The first bear
killed weighed when dressed 483 pounds and
the male one 484 pounds. Lottie, who is improving slowly, has the cubs inher possession,
but she says it will be some time before she
will take another expedition of this kind.—
Damxscus (Pa.) Cor. New Tork Times.
Destitution in Minnesota.
A St. Paul (Minn.) special Of the 4th to the
Chicago Tribune says: "A gentleman who
came from Waseca last night says that the
greatest destitution exists on the Winona &
St. Peter Branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, beyond Sleepy Eye Station, a
point about forty miles west of St. Peter. On
Wednesday a Mr. Burke, a roadmaster on the
section located at- Burns, the next station beyond Sleepy Eye, discovered a whole
family frozen to death. Mr. Burke,
while at work with his men
on the road under his charge, noticed a shanty
close byfrom which no smolra issued. Seeing
evidence that the place was inhabited, the
party visited the premises andforcedopen the
door, when a horrible sight greeted their eyes.
Upon a squalid couch and on the floor of the
wretched hovel lay father, mother and children, evidently a whole family, frozen stiff in
death. Word was at once sent to the nearest
town, and arrangements made to care for the
remains of the unfortunate family. Universal
destitution is reported among the farmers west
of Sleepy Eye. It is stated that no trains carrying fuel have passed Sleepy Eye since December 34. The country is a broad expanse
of prairie, with hardly a stick of timber within jniles of the railroad. Settlers have rushed
in, taken claims, and, deluded by the mild
winters of the past few years, have not made
sufficient provision against the severe cold
of the past three months. They have been
obliged to burn fencing, furniture,
pieces of boards from their houses, and
even the woodwork on their farm machinery.
One man reported to H. 3. Wadsworth, the
station agent at Waseca, that he could not ob-
tainfuCl and had burned much of his furniture, and that the cabinet organ would have
to go next. It is impossible to reach many of
the settlers, as the railroads are drifted and
the wagon roads impassable, and it is feared
that many will starve or be frozen to death before help can reach them."
Terrible Fate of a, Father and Six Children.
Louisvxllb, Ky., Pebruary 2.
The Courier-Journal has the following special from Spring Lick, Ky.: Wiley Embrey,
an old and respected farmer in Butler County,
and six of his children were burned "to d^jath
on Friday night, the Wife and eldest daughter
escaping without injury. The particulars, of
the burning are as follows: On the night referred to Embrey and his family retired between seven and eight o'clock, and at ten
o'clock the wife and husband were awakened
by the roaring of a are, which they discovered
was up-stairs, and In a room where six of their
children were sleeping".
Embrey rushed to the stair-door, opened it,
and started uprstairs, when he was met by
the flames issuing from above, ajid fell
prostrate on the floor. His wife and their
oldest daughter, who were sleeping in the
same room, realizing tho peril of their own
lives, rushed out of doors, leaving behind
them the old man and six children to perish
in the house, the roof of which was then falling in. The old lady and her daughter began
screaming at the top ot their voices, which
3oon attracted several of their neighbors to
the horrifying scene of disaster, but they arrived too late to render any assistance.
Language is wholly inadequate to describe
ttee wails and moans of the grief-stricken
mother and daughter, who stood by gmiug on
all that was.dear to them on earth perishing iu
the angry flames. Tlie lire was not extinguished until everything was consumed.
Among the debris particles of the bodies of
the father and children were found, but not in
sufficient quantities to be identified.
Wiley Embrey was a farmer, and, by dint of
hard work and the strictest economy, managed
to save up enough to live easy and comfortable for the remainder of his life. The whole
country is nearly paralyzed over the horrible
death of Mr. Embrey and his six children.
It is not believed that Mrs. Embrey and her
daughter will survive the shock.
Cholera 1'reulcted.
A recent Cincinnati telegram says: "An
interview Is published with Dr. Blackburn, of
Kentucky, who is one of the most experienced
sholera physicians in the country. He says
the country is pretty sure to Suffer from cholera the coming season. He says it is now in
Chicago, under the name of 'cholerine.' His
theory is that it never failed that a cholera
epidemic followed upon the heels of an influenza epidemic; We have just had that. Men
and horses have suffered from it. The influenza epidemics are due to the too great proportion of ozone in the atmosphere, and the
(leficieuey of it is the condition for cholera
Natiirff is constantly running to extremes;
and the excess of ozone is followed by a deficiency. 'I certainly have,' continued tho
doctor-Governor, 'been exploring cholera to
make its appearance in this section, and now
that it 1ms appeared In Cbloatro, it is mope
than likely that wo shall have it. But,' wiid
ho.'tnoro is Bn infttliifio |>Vl>vpntivo for oh»|»
Messages oy the President,
■ , .. THE PONCA'INDIANS. "
In the National Houso of Representatives
on the 2d a message was received from the
President relative to' the removal of the
Ponca Indians to Indian Territory. After
quoting from-the reports of the Secretary
of the Interior, Agent E. A. Howard and
•the Senate Committee upon the subject the
President says;
" Tho report of the Commission appointed
by me and the testimony taken by them add
very little to what was already contained in
the official reports of the Secretary of the Interior and the report of the Senate Committee touching the injustice done the Ponca, Indians by their removal to tho Indian rl.. rito-
ry. Happily, however, the evidence reported.
by the Commis.-Jion, and their recommendations, point out conclusively the true measure of redress which the Government of the
United States ought now to adopt. The Commission in its conclusions omits to state an
important fact as to the present condition of
thePoncasin Indian Territory, but the evidence they have reported shows clearly and
conclusively that the Poncas now residing in
that Territory, 521 in number, are satisfied
with their new home; that they are healthy,
comfortable and contented, and that they are
freely and firmly decided to adhere to the
choice announoed in the letter of October 25,
1880, and the declaration of December 17,1SS0,
to remain in the Indian Territory, and
not to return to Dakota Territory. The
evidence reported also shows that a fragment
of the Ponca tribe, perhaps 150, which is still
in Dakota and Nebraska, prefer to remain on
their old reservation. In view of these facts,
I am confident the recommendation of the
Commission, together -with the declaration of
the Chiefs of December last, substantiallyfol-
lowed, will afford a solution of the Ponca question which is consistent with the wishes and
interest Of both branches of the tribe.-withthe
settled Indian policy of the Government, and
as nearly as practicable with the demands of
justice. Our general Indian policy for the future should embrace the'f ollowing ideas:
"1. The Indians should be prepared for citizenship by giving to theiryoung of both senses
that industrial and general education which is
requisite to enable them to be self-supporting
and capable of self-protection in civilized communities.
"2. Land should be allotted to Indians in
severalty, inalienable for a certain period.
"3. Indians should have fair compensation
for their lands not required for individual allotments, the amount to be invested with suitable safeguards for their benefit.
"4. With these prerequisites secured, the Indians should be made citizens, and invested
With therights and charged with the responsibilities of citizenship.
"It is, therefore,'recommended that legislation be adopted in regard to the Ponca Indians, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to secure to individual members of the
Ponca tribe, in severalty, sufficient land for
their support, inalienable for a term of years,
or until the restriction on alienation may be
removed by the President. Ample time and
opportunity should be given members of the
tribe freely to choose their allotments, either
on their new or old reservations. Pull compensation should be made for lands to be relinquished and for losses to them by the Sioux
depredations, and by reason of their removal
to Indian Territory, the amount not to be
less than the sum named in the declaration of
the Chiefs made December 17, 1880; in short,
nothing should be left undone to show the Indians that the Government regards their
rights as equally sacred with those of its citizens. The time has come when the policy
should be to place the Indians as rapidly as
practicable upon the same footing with other
permanent inhabitants of this country. I do
not undertake to apportion the blame for the
injustice done the Poncas. Whether the Executive, or Congress, or the public is chiefly
in fault is not now aL question of practical importance. As Chief-Executive at the time
when the wrong was consummated, I am
deeply sensible that enough of the responsi-
Dility for that wrong justly attaches to me to
make it my personal duty and earnest desire
to do all I can to give to these Indian people
that measure of redress which is required
alike by justice and humanity.
" Rutherford B. Hayes."
NATAL STATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS.
0n the same day the Speaker also laidbefore
the House a message from the President,
transmitting for consideration and approrlate
action by Congress a ietter from the Secretary
of the Navy, recommending an appropriation
of §200,000 for the establishment of stations
on the American Isthmus. The President
says:
"In this paper the concurrent testimony of
prominent officers of this Government for a
long series of years, as to the feasibility and
necessity of establishing such stations, and the
great advantages to flow therefrom to the
naval and commercial Interests of the United
States, is clearly set forth, and the considerations adduced cannot but commend themselves, I am confident, to the earnest and careful attention of Congress. Convinced of the
wisdom and propriety of the suggestions thus
presented, I recommend to Congress an appropriation of the sunt named by the Secretary of
the Navy, to "be at his disposal at once fOr expenditure, as soon as suitable arrangements
can be made to the proposed end.
"R. B.Hayes."
How a Long-Lost Mother Was Found.
For five years "Grandma" Hamilton had.
lived at the* Home for the Priendless—blind
and feeble and wanting to die. She was too
good to go to the poor-house and had no money to go to the Old Ladies* Home; so the management-gave her a room and the fairies or the
other good angels brought the old lady a comfortable rocking-chair and other articles of
furniture, and there she sat rocking and knitting life to its close.
One day a lady, in sealskins and jewels, rang
the bell and asked: "Is Mrs. Hamilton in?"
No, they said. There was no Mrs. Hamilton
there. The lady could not mean " Grandma"
Hamilton? In all the five years gone nobody
had called for her! But, yes;therichly-dressed
lady would like to see " Grandma," and, while
they went for her, sat and sobbed on the sofa.
When they led the old lady in, the lady in
sealskin and jewels burst into tears, and throwing her arms around her neck, sobbed out:
"Mother, mother, don't you know Louisa?"
"Oh, no," said,the old lady, peering with her
blind eyes and shaking her head, "my daughters Louisa and Lizzie are both dead, and you
cannot be Louisa,"
"But, Indeed, lam; and Lizzie is living, too,
and for a year I've been looking for^'ou everywhere, and now I've found you"—and
while they wept on each other's necks, Mrs.
Grant, the Superintendent, and Miss Bowmau,
the matron, withdrew and left them to talk if
oy^er. * .
This was only a short time ago, and naxt
day the lady came in a carriage again, and
"Grandma," having taken the night to "get her
i hings together," bade good-by to the Home
und went away all wrapped in fur-lined robes,
to wait in ease and happiness till Death comes
to bid her cease her rocking and her knitting.
And the explanation ot it all Is that fifteen
years ago Louisa married and went to Calk
fomia; Lizzie stayed in .Ohio, and "Grandma,"
with a little competence, came to Chicago.
After-a while, by "one of those inexplicable
combinations of mistakes that spmetiihes obtain in this mysterious world they all came to
believe each other dead, and "Grandma,"
having lived out her competence, drifted tc
the. Home for. the Friendless. Louisa's husband grew rich in California, and last summer
there came to" her the faiutest whisper,that
" Mother" was not dead. She started to search
for her, and, affer going all through Michigan
and OblP where they bad liyed—and wheise, by
tljowav, she found Lizzie still |jyinj*-sUo at
No Fear of Planetary Disaster.
la response to the subject of absorbing interest now under discussion by.
scientists as to the simultaneous arrival
of all the major planets to their perihelia,
inflicting dire results and bringing about
the most* fearful calamities known to
history and resulting in the most devastating disaster to .men and beasts,
Professor Lewis Swift has written a letter to the Rochester Herald, in which
he says:
For the last two years the popular
mind has been excited to an unusual
degree over the statements made by a
few visionary enthusiasts, who, with a
great nourish of apparent wisdom, have
spread before the world the prediction
that, owing to the simultaneous arrival
of the major planets to their perihelia
during the present year, the most dreadful calamities ever recorded in history
are to occur, such as earthquakes on a
vast and destructive scale, devastating
tornadoes, widespread pestilence, great
loss of life by shipwrecks, famine and
wars and a thousand other things too
dreadful to contemplate. In all communities there is a certain class who
will give a listening ear to anything, no
matter how absurd, that partakes largely of marvelousness; hence this belief,
which has not a particle of evidence to.
support itj is widespread in all civilized
countries.
. I am constantly receiving letters asking when the planets will severally be
in perihelion (nearest the sun,) and
when we. are to look for a fulfillment of
these predictions that will-make the
year 1881 famous for all coming time.
These questions convince me that the
delusion still exists, and has sunk deep
in the minds of men, and that perhaps
it would be advisable to prepare a statement setting forth the facts as %4s#S;
ist, and, with slight variations, wilTcon*
tinue to exist as long as time .lasts." ~^.\]
All planets move in orbits, $r:pathk
more or less eliptical, the siiii bdeupy-
ing the common focus of them all. It
therefore necessarily follows that a
planet is sometimes nearer the sun than
at others. In our age (but it will not
always be so) the earth is about three
million* miles nearer the sun on the 1st
of January than on the 2d day of July.
On January 1, therefore, the earth is
in perihelion, and of course is in that
situation once a year. Every planet is
in perihelion once during its year.
Mercury, the planet nearest the sun,
has a smaller orbit than ours, and hence
its year is correspondingly shorter, being only eighty-eight of our days and
must therefore be in perihelion every
eighty-eight days. On the contrary
Neptune, the most distant planet known
has a year equal in length to one hundred and sixty-four and one-half of
ours, ami is consequently only once in
perihelion during that time. It follows
that the |jpie must come when all the
eight planets will- be in perihelion at
once. It is only a question in simple
arithmetic how often this, will happen.
It has been stated, and insisted upon,
that this rare event, which probably
has not occurred since the Mosaic creation, would take place during the present year. That this is not the case the
following table shows:
Mercury..Peb. 21, May 20, Aug. 16, Nov, 12,1881
Arenus........ .......March6, Oct. 16,18S1
Earth.. *>... ....:....Jan. 1,1881
Mars :,...... ..May 26,1881
Jupiter......... : Sept.25,1880
Saturn Aujr. 20, P5S5
Uraa us March 25,1882
Neptune .Oct. 23,1882
It is not denied that this is a close
agreement when it is considered how
long some of the periods of revolution
are. But what of it? Who has ever
proved or presented evidence < that has
any semblance of proof that planets arriving at their perihelion points have
the least perceptible influence on eitlier
the sun or earth or ^any of the other
planets?
Each planet, even the giant Jupiter,
is a pigmy compared to the sun-, in
fact he will outweight all of them combined by more than 700 times. What
effect then can the simple difference in
distance of any single planet, say of
Jupiter, have on the heat, and light,
and spots, etc., on the sun, almost 500,-
000,000 miles distant?
The planet Mercury iscomparatively
near the sun and almost as dense as
lead, and the eccentricity of his orbit is
so great that he is over 29,000,000 miles
nearer the sun at perihelion than at
aphelion, but has any one ever perceived any changes on the sun once in
eighty-eight days? Has any recurrence
of magnetic, storms, earthquakes,
plagues," or an excess of calamities of
.any kind ever been noticed during his
perihelion passages? If not, then it is
safe to say none exists and the subject
may be classed with the thousand other
delusions which exist in the minds of
men, and for which no remedy is known
save a thorough and universal education of all classes of society.
A Successful Swindler.
Except an Irish landlord, says the
London World, no member of the peerage is more to be pitied than Lord
Airlie. For several years past he has
been endeavoring to stop the career of
a clever adventurer, who has been
pleased to adopt the name of his eldest
son, Lord Ogilvy, and, under that designation, to run up debts, forge bills, and
swindle people generally in all parts of
the world. The number of applications
which Lord Airlie has received for
" payment of my account" from tradesmen, who thought they were trusting
his son and heir, is simply incredible.
These bills come in a perfect shower
from all parts of the Continent and the
United States; aud although oublic notices and warnings of all kinds have
been launched at the head of the impostor, and, once or twice he has actually
been arrested, yet, after a short time he
is certain td'be found at his old tricks
again, and poor Lord Airlie is obliged
once more to explain to a; phalanx of
clamorous tradesmen that they have
been duped and robbe'd. Ho.real lord
was ever trusted half: so much as this
spurious one. His manners are said to
be "distinguished,'?'-his-personal appearance is attractive,, a^cl .-^itXi^iihe
fair sex he has always been a great, hit.
Meanwhile the real Lord 'Ogilvy' is.. al-
*waj"s' 'with * his1 regiment, -iihe- Tentlr
Hussars, in India, not having half: Siiehy
a] good t'We oHt-»s*Ms*dQuble.i-*.
t. ^fae Osage Indiaiift.fJWi about 6J0O
\md i)i $i#|e a|Kl 0,000 pii#
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TBE BISING OF THE CURTAIN. .«
We sit before the curtain, and we heed the
pleasant bustle: -' =,...-.....■-
The ushers hastening up the aisles, the fans
and programmes'rustle; -•-,•■
The boy that-cries librettos, and the soft, incessant sound . ,. .,..
Of talking and low laughter that buzzes all -■• ■
around.
How very old the drop-scene looks! A thou- -* -
sand times before .-.-.'»*-.
I've seen that blue paint dashing on that red "\"
distemper shore;
The castle and the gouache sky, the very ilex-
They have been there a thousand years—a
a thousand more shall be. • ■■'..-■
All our lives we *ha"5ffibeen waiting for that -
weary daub to r5se;
We have peeped behind its edges, "as if we
were God's spies;"
We have listened for the signal; yet still, as m
our. youth,
The colored screen of matter hangs between
us and the truth. et
When in my careless" childhood I dwelt beside
a wood,
I tired of the clearing where my father's cabin
stood; . . ,
And of the wild young forest paths that lured ,
me to explore, -. * , ,
Then dwindled down, or led me back to where
I stood before.
But through the' woods before ' our door a
wagon track went by,
Above whose utmost western edge there hung
an open sky;
And there it seemed "to make a plunge, or
break off suddenly, .
As though beneath that open sky It metthe
open sea. . .. . -
O, often have If aneied, in the sunset's dreamy
glow, *
That mine eyes had caught the welterxif the
ocean waves below;
And the wind among the pine tops, with its
low and ceaseless roar,
Was but an echofiom the surf on that im-
aginedshore.
Alas! as I grew older, I found that road led
down
To no more fair horizon than the squalid factory town;
So all fife's purple distances, when nearer them
I came,
Have played me still the same old cheat—the
same, the same, the Samel
And when, O King, the heaven departeth as a
scroll,
Wilt Thou once more thepromise break,Thou
madest to my soul?
Shall I see Thy feasting presence thronged
with baron, knight and page?
Or will the curtain rise upon a dark and empty
stage?
For lo, quick undulations across the canvas
run; -
The foot-lights brighten suddenly, the orches-
tra has done; -
And through the expectant .silence rings loud
the prompter's bell;
The curtain shakes—it rises. Farewell, dull
world far e well 1
—Henry A.. Beers, in Atlantic Monthly.
, ♦ • » .
Dropped Dead at a Festive Gathering.
O, dem golden slippers,
O, aem golden slippers, ,
Golden slippers I'se gwine to wear j
To walk de golden street..
The last notes of the grand accompaniment had barely ceased to resound when
the full, youthful f aceof the singer suffused with blushes of pleasure at the
evident approbation his ditty had met
with. The bright eyes, too, sparkling
with humor and jollity, were turned to
the listeners. The prelude to the second verse was being played, and, joking
with this lady friend, or casting an approving glance at that one, Alphonse
Montemat, thesinger,xullof health, life,
pleasure, amusement and love, turned. „
once more to the instrument to sing the
second verse. The prelude was over
and Alphonse began:
My old banjo hangs on tbe wall—
The words of the quaint negro melody were- escaping the lips when, half
turning to face the company, he fell back
dead. It was about,3 :i0 o' clock of Sunday morning. The lancers had been
danced, when some one proposeda song.
Montemat had a good voice and was . '■
pressed to display his accomplishment,
Mrs. Kent seated herself at the piano to
accompany the manly voice and Montemat selected the song which of all others seemed appropriate to the fate that
overtook him. A sad Sunday it was for
that family. The sudden transitiojf from,
the height of unalloyed pleasure to the
depths of gloom and. despondency was
almost more than they could bear. Pi*. "
J. C. Beard, the Coroner, visited the
house at noon and found that Montemat
had died of heart disease. The deceased
was scarcely twenty years of age and a
native of New Orleans. His death must.
have been almost instantaneous.—New
Orleans Special.
— ■„ * m » —
The Turkish People.
A Constantinople correspondent of
the London Standard, ignoring, for the
moment, the eternal Eastern question,
writes as follows of the Turkish people:
"The commonest form of a rich lady's
cloak is entirely native as regards .material and shape. It is a piece of heavy ■
silk, rarely good in color, upon one end
of which formal and meaningless devices
have been worked in gold. The character of them suggests that in former ~
days this out-door garment consisted of
two pieces, • one a golden scarf for the
head, with pendent fringe and tassels,
the other a mantle of plain silk. In
process of time the "scarf and tassels
were incorporated," as it were, in the
mantle,, surviving only as a cumbrous
ornament. It is not necessary to tie- "
scribe the appearance of Turkish women, thus appareled. Every one .knows
how they stride along like animated
sacks, showing more than enough "of
coarse white stocking on a leg that is
never pretty, ill*niade French boots, or
trailing yellow slippers. Not* a few
wear socks, always down at heel, often
trailing in the perennial mud. Fine
eyes, both gray and black, are common
and quite enough is seen of the features
to assure one that beauty of face is not
sparingly distributed. While lightly
digressing in this by-path I would point
out the exceeding fairness of the race.
The Turkish peasant has a whiter skin
than the Greek townsman.. Southern
Italians even are more dusky of complexion. . Fair hair and light eyes
abound iu all classes,- and unless it be a
man evidently crossed with negro blood *
you Will scarcely ever see a Turk so
brown of skin as are the vast majority
of Greeks. In height and strength of
build, also, they are superior to all their
subject peoples, excepting the Albanian.
This magnificent race, the Skipetar, is.
the Pathan of Europe, but vastly above .
its,Asiatic antitype in all the finer qualities of man. No unprejudiced observer ':
cah doubt that the Albanian, with all
inS^Sliorteomings and his faults, iVthje *
most interesting, of the nationalities,
subject to Turkey. Above all, he is ar-
tistic, permeated with a sense dt fitness ■ I
'and beauty,'which lie displays iii'man* tl
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Object Description
| Title | 1881-02-10; Saline Observer |
| Date | 1881-02-10 |
| Publisher | LeBaron & Nissly |
| Description | An issue of the Saline, Michigan newspaper. Published weekly. Began publication in 1880. No longer published. |
| Subject/Keywords | Saline (Mich.) - Newspapers; Washtenaw County (Mich.) - Newspapers; |
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| Title | 1881-02-10; Saline Observer |
| Date | 1881-02-10 |
| Publisher | LeBaron & Nissly |
| Description | An issue of the Saline, Michigan newspaper. Published weekly. Began publication in 1880. No longer published. |
| Subject/Keywords | Saline (Mich.) - Newspapers; Washtenaw County (Mich.) - Newspapers; |
| Copyright Permission | This material is in the public domain. |
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Morgan's Electoral-Count resolutions, reported the sday-toefore as a substitute for Mr. IhgaUs'.'propo^itibrij were taken up. in the Senate on the 2d aud, at Mr. Morgan's suggestion, were amended in minor details so-as to make them concurrent, and to provide for two tellers instead of one on the part of the Senate; an amendment, offered by Mr. Edmunds, that the count take place In the Senate Chamber, and not in the hall of the House was rejected—23 to 35—and this was followed by the rejectidfi'#3TtO'B£-of art amendment, otfered byMivj^atpiivproviclipffthat the tellers of the two houses'shall make a list of the Electoral rotes "as the certificates shall be opened by the President of the Senate" instead of " as they shall be declared;" the resolutions were then adopted by a viva voce vote. The President's messasre concerning' the Ponca Indian question was read... In the -House ainessage was received from the President emboflying the report of the Ponca Commission, and urging the passage*©!' a- bill -in accordance with their recommendations. In concluding-, the President, expressed .profound regret for the injustice done to the tribe, aud, without attempting to apportion the blame, says that, as Chief-Executive at the- time- the wrong was consummated,, he feels his own responsibil ty deeply enough to make him sincerely wish that they should have redress. The Speaker also presented a message from the President, transmitting for consideration and appropriate action of Congress a letter from the Secretary • of the STavy. recommending an. approlpriatioh of S'20'i),OOQ for the establishment ttf naval stations on the American Isthmus. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed: The Apportionment bill was called up, and Mr, Cox made a speech explaining its provisions and urging its passage. ^ In the Senate on the 3d on motion of Mr. Morganitie concurrent resolution introduced byhim June io, 13S0, declaring- thepresident of the Sepate, not invested by the Constitution with The^rlghifto'eonrit- the votes of Electors for President and Vice-President of the P/nlted States, so as to determine what votes shall be received and counted, or what votes shall be rejected, was taken up, aud, after some discussion, a motion by Mr. Edmunds to lay the resolution on.the table-was rejected by.a party vote^-33to 33.; At the expiration of the morning hour Mr. Morgau moved to postpone the regiilar order, which was agreed to—3-3 to 24— and a motion was then agreed to—30 to 18—to resume consideration of the Morgan resolution. After debate Mr. Edmunds moved an amendment to make the resolution read that. '"In the opinion of the Senate, neither the. Senate, nor the Senate and House of Representatives, nor the President of the Senate;* is invested by the-Constitution with the right to make the count" which amendment was voted down—18 to 29, a party vote. An amendment offered by Mr. Tniralls, to the effect that the President of the Senate had the right to count the votes in the sense of computing them, but had not the right to count in the sense of determining judicially whajwere votesv was rejected without division. Z.M vote was"-■subsequently taken upon ■agreeing to the resolution, when the result phowed SO ayes to 1 in the negative (Mr. ■Wbyte), the Republicans (except Mr. Coiikling, who voted for the resolution,) abstaining from voting, thus indicating the ab- senca of a quorum. The minority evincing a disposition to continue the. obstructive policy, a motion by Mr. Morgan to adjourn was agreed to In the House the Indian Appropriation bill was reported with the Senate amendments, some of which were agreed to. The Apportionment bill was taken up, and Mr. Cox offered an amendment fixing the number of Representatives at- SOT, while Mr. Sherwin, of the GeSsus'Comniittee, favored 301. -The debate-faen assumed a political cast, and the bUl»Vi<;eB.t over, without action. Mr. King introduced a bill appropriating §20,000 for the distribution of seed corn. Ltfttfe"Seh-&t&on the 4th Conference Com- mlttees-were appointed on the Indian and Naval Appropriation bills. The bill to provide for sending a vessel to the relief of the Arctic steamer Jeannette was passed, with an amendment increasmg.the appropriation to $175,000,, and pro vidLig for the relief of any other vessels that may be found needing assistance. The House bill appropriating $2(5,000 for a National Museum was itlso passed. A motion by Mr. Logan to postpone the regular order of business aud take up the Grant-retirement bill was, reje'Cted—26 to 30—a p art j-vote, ex- ceptthat'.Mr. Hilt (Ga.) and Mr. Davis (JD1.I, voted*-ea with theRepubiieans. A motion by Mr. r/Qgai-ftwJake up his Franking-privilege resolution was also voted down by a partv vote—20 to 31. Mr. Morgan's resolution denving the right of the President of the Senaie to count the Electoral vote was taken up, and. after debate, was amended by adding tbe word.-*: " And that it is the duty •of Congress,, without delay, to institute measures 'fo~ execute/a due arid orderly performance of said duty iu future" and the resolution, as amended, was passed—i3 to 1—Messrs. Allison, Blaine, Booth, Conkllng, Davis (III.), Hoar and Jones (ISTev.)-voting with the Democrats in the affirmative In the House a bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee, aurh'orMng the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to commence and prosecute suits against the United States in the Supreme Court of the United States. An act for the sale of Indian lands in Kansas was passed, the rate being fixed at three dollars per acre. Several private bills were also passed. A joikt resolution was passed in the Senate On the 5th Inviting the Governmeut!'and: people of_ Prance and the family of Lafayette to join^fie^^nSe^tateslfifheTorktown^en- tentiiai celebration, and,§20,000 were apprxh priateS for the occasion! The Pension Appropriation bill was taken up and debated— The Senate Electoral-Count resolution was taken up inthe Hoiise, and, after debate, the resolution being divided, tho first branch- providing: for the meeting of both houses on the '.-th, the Vice-President presiding, and f or one teller on the part of the Senate, and two on the part of the House, to .make a list of the votes as declared and to deliver them to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the. state of-the vote and the persons elected President and Vice-President of the United States—was agieed to without division. The second brancb-rprovidingthat, if the .counting of any votes ■«fiEle,ctor3Tgiyen on, any Other, day than that fixed by Congrs?s for the easting of such voiesigfaall not essentially change the result of the vote for President and Vice-President, the Presidenfrpf t-hftSeiiatea^hall declare the rer sult*a3J,tAvoiiIdbEs:%ere sach votes counted; apd also asjifejyould beTvere'they not counted; "btit in eitker'eveh't——is efectedPresident of the United States;" and the result for Vice- President shall be announced in the same manner—was also agreed to—16'J to ft—the Republicans as a rule voting in the negative, and the Democrats in the affirmative: the following Democrats, however, voted in the negative: Messr3. AckSen, Converse, Culberson, Hurd. Slemons and Young (Pa.), and the following Republicans In the affirmative: Messrs. Belford, Bisbee, Bowman, Burrows, Calkins, CannonV Carpenter,-' Ch ttendem erapo, Daggett, Dicfcj,* Fenton, Field, Fitiier, Hall, Haw- ley.-Hayes, Hazleton, Heilman, Hiscock, Horr, Kejiyv Killinger, Llnd^ey, McGowan. Morton,, OtiS&Ill, Prescott, Rice, Robiuson, Stone and Tayli5r.'0hio.) The Apportionment bill was taken up and debated. Domestfc. The World's Pair Commission has issued a circular announcing that the States and Territories will determine for themselves the manner and character of the r expositions. Tsimigkaxts to the number of 8,076 airived at the port of New York-durin^ the month of January of^tjhis. year, being 2,399 more than during the corresponding month of last year. JoiiAU^-i Callauas and her son William were burned td death in their dwelling at Dorchester, Mass., on the night of the 31st ult. AN alarming increase in the number of small-pox cases in New Tork was reported on the 2d. The Central Square Baptist Church, In Cambridge, Mass., valued at §95,000, was totally destroyed by fire on the 3d. Colosei. Uaxler, with a squad of Texas rangers, surprised a> band of twenty Apaches near Qaltman'% few days ago and killed six and captured three of their number. ^T^Bfanare. is announced of ^oomisAMc- ^tpler'i.Varriage; manufacturers, of Bath, N. H., withliabiiifcies of $110,000.* JodgkBarrett, of New York, hasdenied tlie application of Kfifiis Hatch fqi> atifajunc- tioo to prevent the eoasolidation of the tole- grapu, oia »ftn f8. fJia Western, imroii t&la* gtzpli t)owi]nmf antmufteoti on tte 3d tljafe it; privileges of the American Union and Atlantic and Pacific Companies. The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided the Game law to be Constitutional. A ely-wheei. eighteen feet in diameter flew apart in the Russian mills, atNiles, Ohio, on the 3d and two men were killed and several injured. Ox the 3d at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y.", the thermometer stood at thirty-two degrees below zero. George Baohmas-, the President of the American Sash Balance and Lock Company, of Sandusky, Ohio, ,has absconded. Three men who brutally treated a young lady of Aususta, Ark., were taken from the. County Jail on the night of the 2d, carried across the river and hung". « Hexry Lame, a colored man 128 years old, died at Mount Vernon, Ind., on the 3d. Gheyexke stock-owners deny that any great, number of cattle have perished on the stock ranges by reason of the "severe winter, and allege that the losses will not exceed ten per cent. Catharine Mikler and George Smith were executed at Williafnsport, Pa., on the 3d in the presence of about one hundred and fifty spectators. Geor&e W.- Bishop and Isaac W. Helm, well-known cit'zens of Baltimore, have been sentenced to five years.in the Penitentiary for forgng the signature of a minor,,.named Frederick Ketchum, by which a fraud of -S18,-, 000 was perpetrated. The amendments to the Funding bill as agreed uron by the United States Senate Finance Committee on the 4th provide that the bonds shall bear interest at 8}^ per cent, per annum; that they shall be redeemable in live years and payable in twenty; that the certificates shall be redeemable in one year and payable in ten, and shall bear interest not to exceed %% per-cent, per annum, the interest to be paid semi-annually; that the National Bank deposits, as security for circulation, shall be all in Government bonds; that there shall be an allowance of one-half of one per cent, instead of one- fourth of one per cent, for negotiating the new bonds. By the explosion of a mill boiler at Kimms-» wick, Mo., on the 4th, John and Frank Schmidt and Charles Baker were killed and two other men seriously wounded. Bobbers recently took four mail pouches and the treasure bag from a stage at Del Norte. Col. Joseph Wade, the Indianapolis murderer, has been granted a new trial, for error in the charge to the jury. The Secretary of the Treasury in Washington on the 4£h received a letter from Nashville, Tenn., inclosing sixty dollars, with a request that it be placed to the credit of the conscience fund. Je^xie Eobertsox died at Nashville, Tenn., on the 4th. She was known as "Soldier Charlej"." During the rebellion she donned male attire, enlisted at Chicago and served for several years in the Union army. John Bbowx's Sons, manufacturers of cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for S750,(J0J. The Capitol Hotel at Dover, Del., burned to the ground on the morning rii the. 4th. The guests at the hotel, including Attorney-. General Graj-, the Speaker and several members of the Legislature, barely escaped with their lives. Harvard Coixegs:, Massachusetts, has received a donation of §100,000 from an unknown friend, for the erection of a building for its law school. Leo E. von Hillerx, a German Count, has been held for trial; nnder bail of §1,003, by a New York Court, for forging death certificates of the Metropolitan Life Insurance' Company. The Reformed Church at Utica, N. Y.,' erected at a cost of §63,000, was recently totally destroyed b3* lire. * The grocery house of the Greeley-Burnham Company, the largest in St. Louis, caught fire on the evening of the 5th from the breaking down of a shelf full of matches in cases. The building and contents were speedily destroyed, and several adjoining establishments were also burned, causing a total loss of about §400,000. * In a storm at Gervais, Ore., a few days ago a school-house containing one hundred pupils and teachers was carried eighty yards. Several children were badly hurt, but none were killed. A special dispatcli from Charlotte Court House, Va., on the 4th states that, a woman with considerable money stopped for lodging at the house of John Demps, .n Checkertown. the was put in a room with Demps' wife, but in a different bed. Demps determined to murder the woman, and entered the room at midnight with an ax, and with two fearful blows he killed his wife, supposing her to be the visitor. The screams of the other woman informed him of his mistake. She fled, and lie, after burying his wife, was arrested while burning the bed-clothing to conceal his crime. Martin Donley and wife, living on Big Run, near Williamstown, Ohio, died oft the 4th within a few hours of each other, in great agony* giving undisputed symptoms Of.- trichinje. They had eaten of raw pork a few days before. A portion of the meat was examined and found to contain large numbers of the fatal worms. A recent convention of California farmers resolved to form a Wheat-Growers' Association, for protection against middlemen, and to establish an agency at Liverpool. John J. Berry/, an embezzling bank cashier of Hackensack, N. J., has been sent to the State Prison for five years. Shocks of earthquake were felt in portions of Hfeiw York and New Hampshire on the 4th. August Schultz, a fifteen-year-old boy of Milwaukee, handed himself the other day through fear of punishment for haying stolen five dollars from his parents. Pavid C. Bogart, Avho left a railroad- switch open at Pennhorn, N, J., last fall,* causing a collision and two deaths, has recently been tried at Jersey City and convicted of manslaughter. been anticipates for several days. He was unconscious from and after five o'clock on the evening before his death; General Thomas T. Eckhart, of New York, was on the otli elected General Maua- ger of the Western Union Telegrapli Company under the organization of the recent consolidation. Jay Gould and Russell Sage are among the new Directors. Foreig-n. There was great excitement in the British House of Commons on the 3d. Secretary Harcourt refused to inform Mr. Parnell what conditions of his ticket-of-le.tve Davitt had violated to cause his arrest, the Irish members shouting "Shame!" and the others cheering. The speaker refused to hear John Dillon, who continued to talk, and a motion for his suspension was adopted, and he was forcibly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. When Gladstone rose to speak, O'Donohue moved to adjourn. Pamell proposed that Gladstone be no longer heard, whereupon the former's suspension was moved and carried, the vote being 405 to 7. On'his refusing to leave he was escorted out by six officers, the Home-Rulers waving their hats.. F.nui- gan was then suspended, and, as twenty- seven Home-Rulers refused to vote, they were suspended in a body and removed singly by the Serg.eant-at-Arms. The House did not adjourn until, on Mr. Gladstone's motion, the bill for the protection of life and property in Ireland hadboen declared urgent. Near'the town of Canete, in Chili, gold has been, found in nugget-5, some of which weighed four to six ounces. Thirteen hundred claims have been taken up. In the Prussian Diet on* the 4th Bismarck announced that he must have larger resources, and considered tobacco as the most suitable thing from which to obtain them. It was intimated'that he intended to establish a Government monopoly of the weed. Rev. Dr. Schaff, Chairman of the American Committee of Revision of tlie Bible, has recently received a. dispatch from Oxford, Eng., stating that the publication of the revised New Testamenthasbeen postponed until May next. A London telegram of the 4th says the Government had stationed two gunboats at Tarbert, on the Shannon. The arrest of leading Land Leaguers was expected to follow closely after the passage'of the Coercion bill. Davitt, the Land Leaguer, arrested in Dublin on the 3d for violation of the conditions of his ticket-of-leave, Svas« taken on the 4th before the Chief-Magistrate at the Bow Street Police Station in London, and sentenced to finish his term of servitude at Pen- tonville prison. France has renewed its proposal to Germany for an International Conference on the silver question. It is stated that Russia intends to place her new loan on the America n market. A Constantinople dispatch of the 5th says the Porte was preparing to increase the land tax and have it paid five years in advance. A forced loan from the inhabitants of Constantinople, on the ground of their exemption from military service, was also proposed. The King of Ashantee has declared war against England, and stores and ammunition have been ordered to the Cape coast from Madeira. Meetings were held throughout Ireland and in some parts of England and Scotland on the 6fch to protest against the passage of the Coercion bill. The meetings^of-Ahe Land League were generally prohibited. T.Berlin dispatch of the 6th says that General Garibaldi's son Menotti had been offered the command of a volunteer corps for "the Transvaal.'. It was stated oft the 6th that the fund of the Irish Land League had been deposited in France, in the names of Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and Egau. Egan had gone to Paris to escape the operation of the Coercion act. Three policemen of Edinburgh, Scotland, were shot on the 5th by two men whom they arrested for lurking about the" custom-house. One of the latter subsequently committed suicide. OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. / Personal and Political. The New York Assembly on the, 2d, by a vote of 101 to 9, passed a bill to prevent the consolidation of the Telegraph Companies. The Woman's National Anti-Polygamy Society, in session at .Salt Lak? City,on the M, adopted resolutions Indorsing the action ol Governor Murray in withholdimj a certificate of election from Cannon, and calling on Congress to indorse the Governor's action, and not allow an alien and a law-breaking rolygamist to continue as a member of that body. Francis A. DuRrvAGE, a well-known story writer, died in New York on the 3d. A recent New York dispatch says William jl. Vanderbilt had paid the entire cost of transporting the obelisk, pedestal and steps Irpm Alexandria to New York and erecting them in Central Pari?, I : Tboms 0mww> tlw oratBonfcEflgHsIf his- to'to, diod k London on tlio nwnlw at Mia RiJh BgerJ Ofgfjff # years, His u0»tl» jift ' . f ' LATER SEWS. In a recent interview with a New York reporter Jay Gould stated that the consolidation of the Telegraph companies was completed and could not" be disturbed by any legislative or judicial action. He said the object of the consolidation was to. carry Out a plan of developing in the .United States an efficient system of- cheap telegraphy on a grand scale, both by sea and by land. A general cable and telegraphic circuit around the world was contemplated, with New York for the center. On the 7th a large portion of New Orleans was under water, owing to a^crevasse-m the new and old canal levees. Aunty Jackson, a negress^ aged 112 years, died at Norma!, 111., a few days ago. The New York State military authorities have foroidden the use of armories by religious sects, as also parades by the National Guard for their benefit. Our authorities in Alaska are mak'ng earnest efforts to suppress the, manufacture of "hoockcrso" an intoxicat.ng beverage of Russian antecedents. In one raid over 200 stills and 1,500 gallons of mash and liquor were destroyed. The merchants of Sitka have adopted a resolution not to import any molasses or Sandwich Island sugar, from which the drink is distilled. A Berlin telegram of the 7th says the Emperor William had sent to the Sultan an autograph letter declaring that Germany would do her utmost to prevent war. A Dublin dispatch of the 7th states that the Home-Rulers had decided to carry into the great towns of Eugiand and Scotland the agitation against coercion. It was announced from Dublin on the 7th that tenants on several estates who had b»en refusing to pay rent had begun handing in the money. In the British House of Commons on the 7th the Home Secretary announced that Davitt would not be subjact to ordinary prison labor,.but would have to wear a con- v.ct's dress. Resolutions have recently been adopted by the New York Board of Trale and Transportation calling for the improvement of the canals and the abolition of all tolls on Westbound freight, to enable boatmen to compete successfully with the improved Canadian canal. . *' ' A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Wisconsin for the apprehension of female tramps. . „ In the United States Senate on the 7th, on motion of Mr. Morgan, Messrs. Hamlin and Thurman were appointed tellers for the Senate in the Electoral-count proceedings. The Pension/ Appropriation bill was further amended. In the House the Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. House and Crowley as tellers on the part of tho House to make a list of the votes declared for President and Vice-President on tho 9th. A motion to susreud the rules and pass, tho Rtvoi' and Harbor Appi'bpi'iation bill was de« fflatod-»-i(iO to go, not tlit) Jiecossary two* tuirds in tlie mmkttn* ' A. lJ«sperate Struggle with Two Bears. LoTTns Merrill, the female hunter ci Wayne County, Pa., has just had another adventure worthy of record, and one which came so near costing: her her lifefthat she will probably in the future never resume her masculine sport. A few days ago, just after the great sleet storm which swept over the country, Lottie determined to go deer hunting-. Don* ning her snow shoes she started to cross Drig Swamp, a dense mass of scrub-oak and laurel. When she had reached the center of the marsh she discovered the foot-prints of a very large bear on the crust. She followed the trail out of the swamp for about two miles, when she discovered the den which the animal inhabited. Entering the cave she found two little cubs on a bed of leaves in one corner. The cubs were about the size of kittens and were easily captured. Lottie was just emerging from the cave when she was met by an immense she bear. The bear had heard the cub3 yell and was making all possible speed to rescue them. Before Lottie could draw her rifle to her shoulder the animal was upon her aud, grasping he»in her paws, gave her such a terrible squeeze that she fainted, when the bear, thinking her dead, released her grip. She fortunately regained consciousness quickly, and when the old bear was playing with her cubs the plucky hunter drew her rilie and shot her in the side. The bullet did not strike the animal's heart, and as the brute dashed at her again Lottie drew her hunting knife and with one bold stroke nearly severed the bear's head from the body. Lottie was just congratulating herself on her successful escape when the dead bear's mate made his appearance. Lottie's rilie was unloaded and she was totally unprepared for a second encounter, but determined to " fight it out." The struggle was a long one. .Fortunately the young lady was not incumbered in her motions by petticoats, for in all her hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons of doeskin with a long blouse. When, Anally, Lottie thought the bear was dead she stooped over to cut his throat, and the animal, with one stroke of his monstrous paw, tore the clothing almost completely from her body. During- the protracted struggle the bear had reached the edge of a cliff fully 100 feet high and sloping at an angle of more than 45 degrees down to the AValliupaupack Creek. As the animal grabbed Lottie he commenced sliding on the slippery crust down this almost perpendicular slope. Lottie was carried with him, and every foot of distance traversed added to their velocity. When they reached the foot of tho slope they struck against a tree, completely killing the bear and breaking two of Lottie's ribs, her left arm and one of her limbs. She managed, however, to crawl about a mile to a house, where she received medical treatment. The first bear killed weighed when dressed 483 pounds and the male one 484 pounds. Lottie, who is improving slowly, has the cubs inher possession, but she says it will be some time before she will take another expedition of this kind.— Damxscus (Pa.) Cor. New Tork Times. Destitution in Minnesota. A St. Paul (Minn.) special Of the 4th to the Chicago Tribune says: "A gentleman who came from Waseca last night says that the greatest destitution exists on the Winona & St. Peter Branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, beyond Sleepy Eye Station, a point about forty miles west of St. Peter. On Wednesday a Mr. Burke, a roadmaster on the section located at- Burns, the next station beyond Sleepy Eye, discovered a whole family frozen to death. Mr. Burke, while at work with his men on the road under his charge, noticed a shanty close byfrom which no smolra issued. Seeing evidence that the place was inhabited, the party visited the premises andforcedopen the door, when a horrible sight greeted their eyes. Upon a squalid couch and on the floor of the wretched hovel lay father, mother and children, evidently a whole family, frozen stiff in death. Word was at once sent to the nearest town, and arrangements made to care for the remains of the unfortunate family. Universal destitution is reported among the farmers west of Sleepy Eye. It is stated that no trains carrying fuel have passed Sleepy Eye since December 34. The country is a broad expanse of prairie, with hardly a stick of timber within jniles of the railroad. Settlers have rushed in, taken claims, and, deluded by the mild winters of the past few years, have not made sufficient provision against the severe cold of the past three months. They have been obliged to burn fencing, furniture, pieces of boards from their houses, and even the woodwork on their farm machinery. One man reported to H. 3. Wadsworth, the station agent at Waseca, that he could not ob- tainfuCl and had burned much of his furniture, and that the cabinet organ would have to go next. It is impossible to reach many of the settlers, as the railroads are drifted and the wagon roads impassable, and it is feared that many will starve or be frozen to death before help can reach them." Terrible Fate of a, Father and Six Children. Louisvxllb, Ky., Pebruary 2. The Courier-Journal has the following special from Spring Lick, Ky.: Wiley Embrey, an old and respected farmer in Butler County, and six of his children were burned "to d^jath on Friday night, the Wife and eldest daughter escaping without injury. The particulars, of the burning are as follows: On the night referred to Embrey and his family retired between seven and eight o'clock, and at ten o'clock the wife and husband were awakened by the roaring of a are, which they discovered was up-stairs, and In a room where six of their children were sleeping". Embrey rushed to the stair-door, opened it, and started uprstairs, when he was met by the flames issuing from above, ajid fell prostrate on the floor. His wife and their oldest daughter, who were sleeping in the same room, realizing tho peril of their own lives, rushed out of doors, leaving behind them the old man and six children to perish in the house, the roof of which was then falling in. The old lady and her daughter began screaming at the top ot their voices, which 3oon attracted several of their neighbors to the horrifying scene of disaster, but they arrived too late to render any assistance. Language is wholly inadequate to describe ttee wails and moans of the grief-stricken mother and daughter, who stood by gmiug on all that was.dear to them on earth perishing iu the angry flames. Tlie lire was not extinguished until everything was consumed. Among the debris particles of the bodies of the father and children were found, but not in sufficient quantities to be identified. Wiley Embrey was a farmer, and, by dint of hard work and the strictest economy, managed to save up enough to live easy and comfortable for the remainder of his life. The whole country is nearly paralyzed over the horrible death of Mr. Embrey and his six children. It is not believed that Mrs. Embrey and her daughter will survive the shock. Cholera 1'reulcted. A recent Cincinnati telegram says: "An interview Is published with Dr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, who is one of the most experienced sholera physicians in the country. He says the country is pretty sure to Suffer from cholera the coming season. He says it is now in Chicago, under the name of 'cholerine.' His theory is that it never failed that a cholera epidemic followed upon the heels of an influenza epidemic; We have just had that. Men and horses have suffered from it. The influenza epidemics are due to the too great proportion of ozone in the atmosphere, and the (leficieuey of it is the condition for cholera Natiirff is constantly running to extremes; and the excess of ozone is followed by a deficiency. 'I certainly have,' continued tho doctor-Governor, 'been exploring cholera to make its appearance in this section, and now that it 1ms appeared In Cbloatro, it is mope than likely that wo shall have it. But,' wiid ho.'tnoro is Bn infttliifio >Vl>vpntivo for oh» » Messages oy the President, ■ , .. THE PONCA'INDIANS. " In the National Houso of Representatives on the 2d a message was received from the President relative to' the removal of the Ponca Indians to Indian Territory. After quoting from-the reports of the Secretary of the Interior, Agent E. A. Howard and •the Senate Committee upon the subject the President says; " Tho report of the Commission appointed by me and the testimony taken by them add very little to what was already contained in the official reports of the Secretary of the Interior and the report of the Senate Committee touching the injustice done the Ponca, Indians by their removal to tho Indian rl.. rito- ry. Happily, however, the evidence reported. by the Commis.-Jion, and their recommendations, point out conclusively the true measure of redress which the Government of the United States ought now to adopt. The Commission in its conclusions omits to state an important fact as to the present condition of thePoncasin Indian Territory, but the evidence they have reported shows clearly and conclusively that the Poncas now residing in that Territory, 521 in number, are satisfied with their new home; that they are healthy, comfortable and contented, and that they are freely and firmly decided to adhere to the choice announoed in the letter of October 25, 1880, and the declaration of December 17,1SS0, to remain in the Indian Territory, and not to return to Dakota Territory. The evidence reported also shows that a fragment of the Ponca tribe, perhaps 150, which is still in Dakota and Nebraska, prefer to remain on their old reservation. In view of these facts, I am confident the recommendation of the Commission, together -with the declaration of the Chiefs of December last, substantiallyfol- lowed, will afford a solution of the Ponca question which is consistent with the wishes and interest Of both branches of the tribe.-withthe settled Indian policy of the Government, and as nearly as practicable with the demands of justice. Our general Indian policy for the future should embrace the'f ollowing ideas: "1. The Indians should be prepared for citizenship by giving to theiryoung of both senses that industrial and general education which is requisite to enable them to be self-supporting and capable of self-protection in civilized communities. "2. Land should be allotted to Indians in severalty, inalienable for a certain period. "3. Indians should have fair compensation for their lands not required for individual allotments, the amount to be invested with suitable safeguards for their benefit. "4. With these prerequisites secured, the Indians should be made citizens, and invested With therights and charged with the responsibilities of citizenship. "It is, therefore,'recommended that legislation be adopted in regard to the Ponca Indians, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to secure to individual members of the Ponca tribe, in severalty, sufficient land for their support, inalienable for a term of years, or until the restriction on alienation may be removed by the President. Ample time and opportunity should be given members of the tribe freely to choose their allotments, either on their new or old reservations. Pull compensation should be made for lands to be relinquished and for losses to them by the Sioux depredations, and by reason of their removal to Indian Territory, the amount not to be less than the sum named in the declaration of the Chiefs made December 17, 1880; in short, nothing should be left undone to show the Indians that the Government regards their rights as equally sacred with those of its citizens. The time has come when the policy should be to place the Indians as rapidly as practicable upon the same footing with other permanent inhabitants of this country. I do not undertake to apportion the blame for the injustice done the Poncas. Whether the Executive, or Congress, or the public is chiefly in fault is not now aL question of practical importance. As Chief-Executive at the time when the wrong was consummated, I am deeply sensible that enough of the responsi- Dility for that wrong justly attaches to me to make it my personal duty and earnest desire to do all I can to give to these Indian people that measure of redress which is required alike by justice and humanity. " Rutherford B. Hayes." NATAL STATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS. 0n the same day the Speaker also laidbefore the House a message from the President, transmitting for consideration and approrlate action by Congress a ietter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending an appropriation of §200,000 for the establishment of stations on the American Isthmus. The President says: "In this paper the concurrent testimony of prominent officers of this Government for a long series of years, as to the feasibility and necessity of establishing such stations, and the great advantages to flow therefrom to the naval and commercial Interests of the United States, is clearly set forth, and the considerations adduced cannot but commend themselves, I am confident, to the earnest and careful attention of Congress. Convinced of the wisdom and propriety of the suggestions thus presented, I recommend to Congress an appropriation of the sunt named by the Secretary of the Navy, to "be at his disposal at once fOr expenditure, as soon as suitable arrangements can be made to the proposed end. "R. B.Hayes." How a Long-Lost Mother Was Found. For five years "Grandma" Hamilton had. lived at the* Home for the Priendless—blind and feeble and wanting to die. She was too good to go to the poor-house and had no money to go to the Old Ladies* Home; so the management-gave her a room and the fairies or the other good angels brought the old lady a comfortable rocking-chair and other articles of furniture, and there she sat rocking and knitting life to its close. One day a lady, in sealskins and jewels, rang the bell and asked: "Is Mrs. Hamilton in?" No, they said. There was no Mrs. Hamilton there. The lady could not mean " Grandma" Hamilton? In all the five years gone nobody had called for her! But, yes;therichly-dressed lady would like to see " Grandma" and, while they went for her, sat and sobbed on the sofa. When they led the old lady in, the lady in sealskin and jewels burst into tears, and throwing her arms around her neck, sobbed out: "Mother, mother, don't you know Louisa?" "Oh, no" said,the old lady, peering with her blind eyes and shaking her head, "my daughters Louisa and Lizzie are both dead, and you cannot be Louisa" "But, Indeed, lam; and Lizzie is living, too, and for a year I've been looking for^'ou everywhere, and now I've found you"—and while they wept on each other's necks, Mrs. Grant, the Superintendent, and Miss Bowmau, the matron, withdrew and left them to talk if oy^er. * . This was only a short time ago, and naxt day the lady came in a carriage again, and "Grandma" having taken the night to "get her i hings together" bade good-by to the Home und went away all wrapped in fur-lined robes, to wait in ease and happiness till Death comes to bid her cease her rocking and her knitting. And the explanation ot it all Is that fifteen years ago Louisa married and went to Calk fomia; Lizzie stayed in .Ohio, and "Grandma" with a little competence, came to Chicago. After-a while, by "one of those inexplicable combinations of mistakes that spmetiihes obtain in this mysterious world they all came to believe each other dead, and "Grandma" having lived out her competence, drifted tc the. Home for. the Friendless. Louisa's husband grew rich in California, and last summer there came to" her the faiutest whisper,that " Mother" was not dead. She started to search for her, and, affer going all through Michigan and OblP where they bad liyed—and wheise, by tljowav, she found Lizzie still jyinj*-sUo at No Fear of Planetary Disaster. la response to the subject of absorbing interest now under discussion by. scientists as to the simultaneous arrival of all the major planets to their perihelia, inflicting dire results and bringing about the most* fearful calamities known to history and resulting in the most devastating disaster to .men and beasts, Professor Lewis Swift has written a letter to the Rochester Herald, in which he says: For the last two years the popular mind has been excited to an unusual degree over the statements made by a few visionary enthusiasts, who, with a great nourish of apparent wisdom, have spread before the world the prediction that, owing to the simultaneous arrival of the major planets to their perihelia during the present year, the most dreadful calamities ever recorded in history are to occur, such as earthquakes on a vast and destructive scale, devastating tornadoes, widespread pestilence, great loss of life by shipwrecks, famine and wars and a thousand other things too dreadful to contemplate. In all communities there is a certain class who will give a listening ear to anything, no matter how absurd, that partakes largely of marvelousness; hence this belief, which has not a particle of evidence to. support itj is widespread in all civilized countries. . I am constantly receiving letters asking when the planets will severally be in perihelion (nearest the sun,) and when we. are to look for a fulfillment of these predictions that will-make the year 1881 famous for all coming time. These questions convince me that the delusion still exists, and has sunk deep in the minds of men, and that perhaps it would be advisable to prepare a statement setting forth the facts as %4s#S; ist, and, with slight variations, wilTcon* tinue to exist as long as time .lasts." ~^.\] All planets move in orbits, $r:pathk more or less eliptical, the siiii bdeupy- ing the common focus of them all. It therefore necessarily follows that a planet is sometimes nearer the sun than at others. In our age (but it will not always be so) the earth is about three million* miles nearer the sun on the 1st of January than on the 2d day of July. On January 1, therefore, the earth is in perihelion, and of course is in that situation once a year. Every planet is in perihelion once during its year. Mercury, the planet nearest the sun, has a smaller orbit than ours, and hence its year is correspondingly shorter, being only eighty-eight of our days and must therefore be in perihelion every eighty-eight days. On the contrary Neptune, the most distant planet known has a year equal in length to one hundred and sixty-four and one-half of ours, ami is consequently only once in perihelion during that time. It follows that the jpie must come when all the eight planets will- be in perihelion at once. It is only a question in simple arithmetic how often this, will happen. It has been stated, and insisted upon, that this rare event, which probably has not occurred since the Mosaic creation, would take place during the present year. That this is not the case the following table shows: Mercury..Peb. 21, May 20, Aug. 16, Nov, 12,1881 Arenus........ .......March6, Oct. 16,18S1 Earth.. *>... ....:....Jan. 1,1881 Mars :,...... ..May 26,1881 Jupiter......... : Sept.25,1880 Saturn Aujr. 20, P5S5 Uraa us March 25,1882 Neptune .Oct. 23,1882 It is not denied that this is a close agreement when it is considered how long some of the periods of revolution are. But what of it? Who has ever proved or presented evidence < that has any semblance of proof that planets arriving at their perihelion points have the least perceptible influence on eitlier the sun or earth or ^any of the other planets? Each planet, even the giant Jupiter, is a pigmy compared to the sun-, in fact he will outweight all of them combined by more than 700 times. What effect then can the simple difference in distance of any single planet, say of Jupiter, have on the heat, and light, and spots, etc., on the sun, almost 500,- 000,000 miles distant? The planet Mercury iscomparatively near the sun and almost as dense as lead, and the eccentricity of his orbit is so great that he is over 29,000,000 miles nearer the sun at perihelion than at aphelion, but has any one ever perceived any changes on the sun once in eighty-eight days? Has any recurrence of magnetic, storms, earthquakes, plagues" or an excess of calamities of .any kind ever been noticed during his perihelion passages? If not, then it is safe to say none exists and the subject may be classed with the thousand other delusions which exist in the minds of men, and for which no remedy is known save a thorough and universal education of all classes of society. A Successful Swindler. Except an Irish landlord, says the London World, no member of the peerage is more to be pitied than Lord Airlie. For several years past he has been endeavoring to stop the career of a clever adventurer, who has been pleased to adopt the name of his eldest son, Lord Ogilvy, and, under that designation, to run up debts, forge bills, and swindle people generally in all parts of the world. The number of applications which Lord Airlie has received for " payment of my account" from tradesmen, who thought they were trusting his son and heir, is simply incredible. These bills come in a perfect shower from all parts of the Continent and the United States; aud although oublic notices and warnings of all kinds have been launched at the head of the impostor, and, once or twice he has actually been arrested, yet, after a short time he is certain td'be found at his old tricks again, and poor Lord Airlie is obliged once more to explain to a; phalanx of clamorous tradesmen that they have been duped and robbe'd. Ho.real lord was ever trusted half: so much as this spurious one. His manners are said to be "distinguished,'?'-his-personal appearance is attractive,, a^cl .-^itXi^iihe fair sex he has always been a great, hit. Meanwhile the real Lord 'Ogilvy' is.. al- *waj"s' 'with * his1 regiment, -iihe- Tentlr Hussars, in India, not having half: Siiehy a] good t'We oHt-»s*Ms*dQuble.i-*. t. ^fae Osage Indiaiift.fJWi about 6J0O \md i)i $i# e a Kl 0,000 pii# ...■ i TBE BISING OF THE CURTAIN. .« We sit before the curtain, and we heed the pleasant bustle: -' =,...-.....■- The ushers hastening up the aisles, the fans and programmes'rustle; -•-,•■ The boy that-cries librettos, and the soft, incessant sound . ,. .,.. Of talking and low laughter that buzzes all -■• ■ around. How very old the drop-scene looks! A thou- -* - sand times before .-.-.'»*-. I've seen that blue paint dashing on that red "\" distemper shore; The castle and the gouache sky, the very ilex- They have been there a thousand years—a a thousand more shall be. • ■■'..-■ All our lives we *ha"5ffibeen waiting for that - weary daub to r5se; We have peeped behind its edges, "as if we were God's spies;" We have listened for the signal; yet still, as m our. youth, The colored screen of matter hangs between us and the truth. et When in my careless" childhood I dwelt beside a wood, I tired of the clearing where my father's cabin stood; . . , And of the wild young forest paths that lured , me to explore, -. * , , Then dwindled down, or led me back to where I stood before. But through the' woods before ' our door a wagon track went by, Above whose utmost western edge there hung an open sky; And there it seemed "to make a plunge, or break off suddenly, . As though beneath that open sky It metthe open sea. . .. . - O, often have If aneied, in the sunset's dreamy glow, * That mine eyes had caught the welterxif the ocean waves below; And the wind among the pine tops, with its low and ceaseless roar, Was but an echofiom the surf on that im- aginedshore. Alas! as I grew older, I found that road led down To no more fair horizon than the squalid factory town; So all fife's purple distances, when nearer them I came, Have played me still the same old cheat—the same, the same, the Samel And when, O King, the heaven departeth as a scroll, Wilt Thou once more thepromise break,Thou madest to my soul? Shall I see Thy feasting presence thronged with baron, knight and page? Or will the curtain rise upon a dark and empty stage? For lo, quick undulations across the canvas run; - The foot-lights brighten suddenly, the orches- tra has done; - And through the expectant .silence rings loud the prompter's bell; The curtain shakes—it rises. Farewell, dull world far e well 1 —Henry A.. Beers, in Atlantic Monthly. , ♦ • » . Dropped Dead at a Festive Gathering. O, dem golden slippers, O, aem golden slippers, , Golden slippers I'se gwine to wear j To walk de golden street.. The last notes of the grand accompaniment had barely ceased to resound when the full, youthful f aceof the singer suffused with blushes of pleasure at the evident approbation his ditty had met with. The bright eyes, too, sparkling with humor and jollity, were turned to the listeners. The prelude to the second verse was being played, and, joking with this lady friend, or casting an approving glance at that one, Alphonse Montemat, thesinger,xullof health, life, pleasure, amusement and love, turned. „ once more to the instrument to sing the second verse. The prelude was over and Alphonse began: My old banjo hangs on tbe wall— The words of the quaint negro melody were- escaping the lips when, half turning to face the company, he fell back dead. It was about,3 :i0 o' clock of Sunday morning. The lancers had been danced, when some one proposeda song. Montemat had a good voice and was . '■ pressed to display his accomplishment, Mrs. Kent seated herself at the piano to accompany the manly voice and Montemat selected the song which of all others seemed appropriate to the fate that overtook him. A sad Sunday it was for that family. The sudden transitiojf from, the height of unalloyed pleasure to the depths of gloom and. despondency was almost more than they could bear. Pi*. " J. C. Beard, the Coroner, visited the house at noon and found that Montemat had died of heart disease. The deceased was scarcely twenty years of age and a native of New Orleans. His death must. have been almost instantaneous.—New Orleans Special. — ■„ * m » — The Turkish People. A Constantinople correspondent of the London Standard, ignoring, for the moment, the eternal Eastern question, writes as follows of the Turkish people: "The commonest form of a rich lady's cloak is entirely native as regards .material and shape. It is a piece of heavy ■ silk, rarely good in color, upon one end of which formal and meaningless devices have been worked in gold. The character of them suggests that in former ~ days this out-door garment consisted of two pieces, • one a golden scarf for the head, with pendent fringe and tassels, the other a mantle of plain silk. In process of time the "scarf and tassels were incorporated" as it were, in the mantle,, surviving only as a cumbrous ornament. It is not necessary to tie- " scribe the appearance of Turkish women, thus appareled. Every one .knows how they stride along like animated sacks, showing more than enough "of coarse white stocking on a leg that is never pretty, ill*niade French boots, or trailing yellow slippers. Not* a few wear socks, always down at heel, often trailing in the perennial mud. Fine eyes, both gray and black, are common and quite enough is seen of the features to assure one that beauty of face is not sparingly distributed. While lightly digressing in this by-path I would point out the exceeding fairness of the race. The Turkish peasant has a whiter skin than the Greek townsman.. Southern Italians even are more dusky of complexion. . Fair hair and light eyes abound iu all classes,- and unless it be a man evidently crossed with negro blood * you Will scarcely ever see a Turk so brown of skin as are the vast majority of Greeks. In height and strength of build, also, they are superior to all their subject peoples, excepting the Albanian. This magnificent race, the Skipetar, is. the Pathan of Europe, but vastly above . its,Asiatic antitype in all the finer qualities of man. No unprejudiced observer ': cah doubt that the Albanian, with all inS^Sliorteomings and his faults, iVthje * most interesting, of the nationalities, subject to Turkey. Above all, he is ar- tistic, permeated with a sense dt fitness ■ I 'and beauty,'which lie displays iii'man* tl nery .iii*4reBs, in all andrevery pnpMa bpbftlfOHg. ^^<*ft'^. -: *. J --"'^ftpn^ffiP?^^'?**^^^^™ Wfcs:' SB*B WiWU-J a£tiijB iSiS!WW!W!^^ **# .-TaFriW.i!iu:ji i.;ji |
